#eve

Life forms illogical patterns. It is haphazard and full of beauties which I try to catch as they fly by, for who knows whether any of them will ever return? ↗

— Margot Fonteyn

#beauties #catch #ever #fly #forms

But the same thing was true in the army. You slept in a barracks with all kinds of people of every nationality, every trade, every character and quality you can imagine, and that was a good experience. ↗

— Shelby Foote

#barracks #character #every #experience #good

Getting close to books, and spending time by myself, I was obliged to think about things I would never have thought about if I was busy romping around with a brother and sister. ↗

— Shelby Foote

#around #books #brother #brother and sister #busy

I think that everything you do helps you to write if you're a writer. Adversity and success both contribute largely to making you what you are. If you don't experience either one of those, you're being deprived of something. ↗

— Shelby Foote

#being #both #contribute #deprived #either

I'm crazy about Grant: his character, his nature, his science in fighting and everything else. But I don't like the idea that he never accepted the blame for anything, always found someone else to blame for any mistake that was ever made, including blaming Prentiss for Shiloh. ↗

— Shelby Foote

#accepted #always #any #anything #blame

I've never shown anybody a draft of anything. ↗

— Shelby Foote

#anything #draft #i #never #shown

He who has faith has... an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well - even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly. ↗

— B. C. Forbes

#appear #assuring #badly #calmness #come

I stuck with that size because I could bend the strings so well, and somewhere along the line I must have gotten it into my mind that I had small hands, so I was thinking I'd never be able to play a full-scale guitar, but I also felt like I was cheating or cutting corners. ↗

— John Fogerty

#along #also #because #bend #cheating

I'm like a twenty-two-year-old kid in a new band trying to get noticed and break through, because the vast majority of people have never seen me play live. ↗

— John Fogerty

#because #break #get #i #kid

I didn't really think about becoming a professional artist until high school, when I realized that everything else required too much math. ↗

— Phil Foglio

#artist #becoming #else #everything #high